Which video game should I play next?

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I'm at the start of a four-day long weekend, and although I have a fairly terrifying to-do list, I'm pretty confident I'll be able to finish Dragon Age: Inquisition in this time.

So! What should I play next?

My options:

The Dragon Age trilogy, again

Pros:

• I have the whole thing ready to go on the XBox
• There are so many origins options for Origins and Inquisition
• I just wanna be a dwarf this time, okay?
• Or an elf
• Maybe even a human who's not a mage?
• Nah, that's ridiculous

Cons:

• It's so long
• Soooooooooooo loooooong
• I miss science fiction

The Mass Effect trilogy, again

Pros:

• I love it so much
• This would be my first playthrough post-The Expanse and Star Trek: Discovery and I can really appreciate the aesthetic inspiration
• GARRUS
• Maybe this time I'll end on Control instead of accidentally choosing Synthesis

Cons:

• I've played it so many times already
• It's also quite long
• There are so many other games out there
• I only have the first game in XBox format, I'll need to find 2 and 3 secondhand somewhere
• Now I'm mad about the endings again

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Pros:

• I mean, my expectations are pretty low, I can hardly be too disappointed
• I have it all ready to play
• It's been a while since I played ME, so the force of comparison will be less

Cons:

• My expectations are really low
• I strongly suspect it's another big game that will take me over 200 hours to play

Assassin's Creed: Origins

Pros:

• I've never played a Ubisoft game before!
• I've heard it's really good
• I got a free copy with my XBox

Cons:

• I've never played a Ubisoft game before!
• I don't think you can play as a woman?
• Will have to dig up the XBox box and find the sheet of paper with the code and download it and ugh, work

Star Trek: Online

Pros:

• The new Discovery-era setting is out, with Mary Wiseman as Tilly
• I do love Star Trek quite a bit
• You may have noticed
• Already downloaded
• Free to play, too

Cons:

• It's multiplayer
• If I wanted to interact with people, I wouldn't be playing video games, now, would I?
• I think there are in-game purchases, which is the sort of thing for which I'm a sucker

I'm strongly leaning towards Assassin's Creed, despite the lack (I assume) of female player characters. I'm in the mood for something new! That doesn't involve interacting with people!

There are a lot of games out there, you guys. TOO MANY. Especially if you're also kind of going, "Man, I'm in the mood to play Portal again, but the first game is super-duper exxy even secondhand for XBox so I'd have to go back to playing on my computer like some kind of chump?"

I'm keen to play Fallout 4 one day! The new one comes out next week! How do you keep up, while still having a full-time job, a creative hobby, regular TV consumption, and also trying not to live in squalor?

I realise that I could ... play more than one game at a time. I feel like I should have done that with DA:I, which is a bit draggy. But I don't know if my brain works that way.